Re: [Groff] Hygienic mode design

[Eric S. Raymond]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
> 
> > Actually, now that I think about it, the right semantics for
> > ".hygiene" is probably "hide everything *currently defined* that
> > hasn't been declared visible".  That way you can define macros after
> > a .hygiene call and they'll be visible unless you do another
> > .hygiene call.
> 
> What about doing the autoconf approach with regular patterns to allow
> and disallow function names? 

Possible, but smells of overengineering to me.
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